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Re: Consensus: Remove form-feeds?
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:19:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: Consensus: Remove form-feeds?
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On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 10:22:57PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 06 June 2013 11:19:43 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Ondrej Bilka wrote:
> > > As there is currently no consensus about form feeds I ask if we want
> > > them?
> >
> > Their use is as described in the GNU Coding Standards:
> >
> > @cindex formfeed
> > @cindex control-L
> > Please use formfeed characters (control-L) to divide the program into
> > pages at logical places (but not within a function). It does not matter
> > just how long the pages are, since they do not have to fit on a printed
> > page. The formfeeds should appear alone on lines by themselves.
> >
> > You could suggest a change to bug-standards@gnu.org, if this usage no
> > longer seems useful to you.
>
> yeah, i don't mind them in projects that use them (like glibc or
> binutils/gdb). they're even kind of handy as they provide visual clues as to
> logical breaks in a file.
> -mike
If it is so I will keep them.
Ondra